kidsil / cmus-shuffled-albums

A bash script to create a CMUS playlist of shuffled albums

CMUS Album Shuffler

Overview

This script automates the process of creating a shuffled playlist of complete albums for the Cmus music player. It groups songs by albums, shuffles the albums, and limits the playlist to a specified number of albums. The script then auto-imports this playlist into Cmus.

Requirements

• Bash
• Awk
• Sed
• Cmus music player installed and configured

Features

• Fetches the latest library from Cmus
• Groups songs by albums
• Shuffles albums randomly
• Limits the playlist to a specified number of albums (default is 10)
• Removes empty lines from the playlist
• Imports the shuffled playlist into Cmus

Usage

1. Clone this repository or download the script.

2. Open a terminal and navigate to the directory containing the script.

3. Make the script executable:

   chmod +x your-script-name.sh

4. Run the script:

   ./your-script-name.sh

5. Open Cmus to see your new shuffled playlist of complete albums.

Configuration

You can change the number of albums in the shuffled playlist by modifying the ALBUM_LIMIT variable at the top of the script.

# Album limit
ALBUM_LIMIT=10  # Change this number to your preference

License

This script is released under the MIT License.